Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sadly, so few of todays photographs are printed so we
may not have them later. Content makes for an
interesting photo and we all do not like or enjoy the
same content. Thankfully.
--- george karvman <leicaphotogod@hotmail.com> wrote:
> All I look at and all I see today is these kids with
> their wizbangs who
> don't understand CRAP about emulsions or how to mix
> up a batch of hypo and
> all their photos are CRAP pictures of idiots on
> skateboards and young women
> (??????) with metal things in their faces, this
> isn't photography, it's
> GARBAGE. These people should be in JAIL. I have to
> ask: WHERE ARE THEIR
> PARENTS? If my daughters had ever come home looking
> like that, my wife and I
> would have taken care of it QUICK. The great
> photographers, Seieglitz,
> Eisendstaedt, Cartier-Bresson, Lewis Hine, Smith
> (who was GENE to me),
> wouldn't tolerate this, so why are we? These people
> don't understand
> anything about capturing the MOMENT, all they care
> about is where they're
> going to get their next DRUG HIGH. EOS stands for
> BRAIN DEAD, and NIKON
> stands for CRAP. The F was a good camera and then
> they were FINISHED.
>
> I take my cameras out and I make PHOTOGRAPHS, the
> camera i use, LEICA, makes
> me THINK about the photographs before I take them. I
> compose them in my
> mind, and capture them on film, and then I develop
> this film and PRINT it in
> my DARKROOM. Today's kids brains have been destroyed
> by auto-idiot cameras
> and they don't understand anything. Which is why
> their "photographs" are so
> bad. The so called "digital" is not photography.
> PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE CREATION
> OF AN IMAGE ON FILM. My Leica cameras will last for
> another one-hundred
> years, and if I am not around to use them, then my
> grandchildren will use
> them and they will be just as capable as producing
> PHOTOGRAPHS then as they
> are now.
>
> I'm glad many of you have been waiting for someone
> to say this.
>
> George
>
>
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